What graphic novels in 2019 stood out as the most significant, most soul-stirring, most thought-provoking, most artistically innovative?
Co-hosts Paul and Johnny are excited to share the Comics Syllabus Podcast’s favorite graphic novels of 2019. Listen as they chatter about the comics works and collections that they loved most this year.
Johnny’s List:
10: The Adventure Zone: Murder on the Rockport Limited Carey Pietsch/Clint,Griffin,Justin,Travis McElroy – 1st Second Books
9: GUTS Raina Telgemeier – Scholastic
8: Hot Comb Ebony Flowers – Drawn & Quarterly
7: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me W: Mariko Tamaki A: Rosemary Valero-O’Connell – 1st Second Books
6: Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction Vol. 4-7 Inio Asano – Viz Media
5: Rusty Brown Chris Ware – Pantheon Graphic Library
4: Pittsburgh/River at Night Frank Santoro – New York Review of Comics Kevin Huizenga – Drawn & Quarterly
3: BTTM FDRS W: Ezra Clayton Daniels A: Ben Passmore – Fantagraphics Books
2: The Hard TomorrowEleanor Davis – Drawn & Quarterly
1: Are You Listening? Tillie Walden – 1st Second Books
Paul’s List:
10: MIghty Jack and Zita the SpacegirlBen Hatke — First Second
9: New KidJerry Craft — HarperAlley
8: Angola Janga: The Kingdom of Runaway Slaves Marcelo D’Salete — Fantagraphics
7: Making Comics Lynda Barry — Drawn and Quarterly
6: The HousePaco Roca — Fantagraphics
5: BTTM FDRSW: Ezra Claytan Daniel (w) and A; Ben Passmore — Fantagraphics
4: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me W: Mariko Tamaki A: Rosemary Valero-O’Connell – First Second Books
3: In WavesAJ Dungo — NoBrow
2: Hot CombEbony Flowers — Drawn and Quarterly
1: The Hard Tomorrow Eleanor Davis — Drawn and Quarterly
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